Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (Wastelands #1)

Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence - the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands.
From the Book of Revelation to The Road Warrior, from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving eschatological tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. In doing so, these visionary authors have addressed one of the most challenging and enduring themes of imaginative fiction: The nature of life in the aftermath of total societal collapse.

Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today's most renowned authors of speculative fiction, Wastelands explores the scientific, psychological, and philosophical questions of what it means to remain human in the wake of Armageddon. Whether the end of the world comes through nuclear war, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm, these are tales of survivors, in some cases struggling to rebuild the society that was, in others, merely surviving, scrounging for food in depopulated ruins and defending themselves against monsters, mutants, and marauders.

Wastelands delves into this bleak landscape, uncovering the raw human emotion and heart-pounding thrills at the genre's core.

Introduction by John Joseph Adams
The End of the Whole Mess by Stephen King read by Stefan Rudnicki
The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi read by Alex Hyde-White
Bread and Bombs by M. Rickert read by Hillary Huber
How We Got In Town and Out Again by Jonathan Lethem read by Stefan Rudnicki
Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels by George R. R. Martin read by Arthur Morey
Waiting for the Zephyr by Tobias S. Buckell read by Gabrielle de Cuir
Salvage by Orson Scott Card read by Stefan Rudnicki
Never Despair by Jack McDevitt read by Emily Rankin
When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth by Cory Doctorow read by Paul Boehmer
The Last of the O-Forms by James Van Pelt read by Stefan Rudnicki
Still Life with Apocalypse by Richard Kadrey read by Harlan Ellison
Artie’s Angels by Catherine Wells read by Emily Rankin
Judgment Passed by Jerry Oltion read by Paul Boehmer
Mute by Gene Wolfe read by Susan Hanfield
Inertia by Nancy Kress read by Hillary Huber
And the Deep Blue Sea by Elizabeth Bear read by Judy Young
Speech Sounds by Octavia E. Butler read by Lisa Renee Pitts
Killers by Carol Emshwiller read by Susan Hanfield
Ginny Sweet-hips’ Flying Circus by Neal Barrett, Jr. read by Stefan Rudnicki
The End of the World as We Know It by Dale Bailey read by Arthur Morey
A Song Before Sunset by David Grigg read by Stefan Rudnicki
Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of the Purple Flowers by John Langan read by Lisa Renee Pitts

©2008 John Joseph Adams 🅿2014 Blackstone Audio

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